Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Is Winnipeg free press tuesday july 29, 1969 hippies face life one step at a time by Fred Edge last of a series Vancouver special Paul is an unusual Young Man from a midwestern american City. What makes him unusual is that he clumped a degree in civil engineering into the wastebasket in his father s office renouncing All rights 1o the family engineering firm which is Why at his father s urging he got the degree in the first place. Paul does not want to build Bridges. He also walked out on his country rather than serve in Vietnam because he can not find it in himself to fight. Not kill. Just fight. Anybody for any reason. At the same time for going against his father s and his country s wishes he found it necessary to walk out on his family. He crossed the Border and became a hippie Here in Vancouver. For a Long time his Mother wrote to him care of general delivery enclosing a Little spending Money in each letter. After the first one. He sent the letters Back unopened. Finally he Simp jailed six years for break ins two 18-year-old youths were sentenced to three years and six years respectively Friday after being convicted of taking part in several break ins july 21 and 22. Claude Joseph Gomien 115 Inkster Boulevard was sentenced to six years in jail and Terrance Babisky 33 Inkster Boulevard was sentenced to three years in jail by Magis trate Cecil Chapman in Winni Peg magistrate s court. The court was told Bot i the youths had Long records As Juv Enile offenders. Gomien pleaded guilty to breaking entering and theft at 35 Inkster Boulevard attempted breaking and entering at 90 Scotia Street and to breaking and entering at the Rosh Pina synagogue. Babisky pleaded guilty to breaking and entering at 35 Inkster Boulevard. Court was told the two entered a House at 35 Inkster Boulevard which was still open from a previous break in and took two cases of Beer. Gomien and a juvenile then went to 90 Scotia Street and tried to break in. When they were unsuccessful they went to 17 Inkster Boulevard tried to remove the screen from the front but could to then entered through a basement window and stole a Wallet containing s3. They then went to Rosh Pina synagogue where they forced the front door and damaged the Interior. Wrote bad cheques two years Milliard f. G. Tammie 51, of Island Lake Man., was sentenced monday in Winnipeg magistrate s court to two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of obtaining lodging by fraud and false pretences. He was sentenced by Magis traae Isaac Rice. Court was told that at the end of an eight Day stay june 18 to 26 in the Marlborough hotel with his common Law wife Tammie handed Over two cheques for s213. It was later found there were insufficient funds in his account in red Lake ont. To cover the cheques. Tammie was sentenced to two years for fraud and six months for false pretences sentences to run concurrently. He was also sentenced to two years in jail for cashing a s450 no funds Cheque at Harry s Auto sales Ltd., 1490 Regent Street. Transcona. The sentence is to run concurrently to the other sentences. Fiddlers compete Shelburne out. Chi fiddlers from four provinces and four . States will Coin Pete in the Canadian open old time fiddlers championships Here aug. 5-6, a contest official said monday. Fiddlers Are coming in from Nova Scotia. New Brunswick Ontario Manitoba. Pennsylva Nia Massachusetts. New York and Indian said Barrie Dales contest manager. The contest started in As a Canadian title even but has developed into a solidly in Competition which last year had 138 entries Ami was the largest event of its kind in the Shelburne is Miles North if Toronto. By stopped picking them up. Shortly alter met him lie set out hitchhiking to Banff where he hoped to get a Job washing dishes and to use his own words go a Little further along the Way to finding clean Cut Paul is 23, clean Cut and Weil spoken As you would expect of someone with his background. His hair is Long but he keeps it neatly trimmed. His belongings arc the clothes on his Back a Toothbrush toothpaste. A razor a change of shirt socks and underclothes and a clean but weather Ealen suede jacket. If you were to meet him under Normal Circum stances in his family s front room you would consider him a Young Man that any Parent would be proud to Call son. What shattered that image is what he has done with his life. Not however As far As Paul himself is concerned. In the words of the hippies he set out to bust his mind and he did it in Spades. I be been through grass marijuana Speed acid Ltd. At even h he said. Heroin i Only tried once. Some Guy asked a Bunch of us to a party and that was the Only time. When he asked us to the second Parlowe All re fused politely. The Way it works when you go to him for the third or fourth part because you need it the Guy says. Sure. Let s have another party at s15 a Speed meth Drine i Only tried a couple of he grinned faintly. I just wanted to bust my mind not destroy after taking a few Ltd trips orally Paul started cranking using a hypodermic Needle on his Arm Ltd finally graduating to sep a stronger form of you can get up there fur four or five Days on he said they slay up for a Pavilion for Young at Osaka Toronto up Canada will have a Young Pavilion at expo 70 in Osaka. Japan appealing to the under-25 group which is expected tomake up 65 per cent of visitors Patrick Reid commissioner general of the Pavilion said monday. Or. Reid spoke at a news con Ference As he displayed a 12 foot Square Model of the Mir ror covered Pavilion while the Rock strains of a Vancouver pop group called the collectors provided a noisy up Tempo Back ground. It is important for us to make a Strong impression at this time in Japan if Canada is going to gain markets and consolidate her position on the Pacific said the commissioner general an Irish born Cana Dian with extensive experience running Trade pavilions. Or. Reid left later monday to take up permanent residence in Osaka where workmen Are Busy fitting the last Large mirrors that make up the spectacular outer Shell of the Pavilion in preparation for the March 15, 1970, opening. T h c 100-Yard-Long Pavilion which books like a four sided Pyramid with its top Cut off has been designed by the Vancouver architect firm of Erikson Mas sey. Together with the pavilions of Ontario Quebec and British co Lumbia it gives Canada the big Gest representation of any for eign country. Mai Ruth Hodge theme co or dilator showed reporters portions of a 100-Page Book entitled Canada and containing Large coloured photographs of Cana Dian life. The Book will be distributed at the Pavilion. Or. Reid said the Mirror sheathed Pavilion at times turns into a blinding Sun reflector at others it disappears from View quite eerily and impressively As the reflections blend with the sky. At night it is deep Blue reflecting the stars in the heavens. Inside the lowering Entrance the Canadian theme is introduced by a colourful autumn Maple Forest stretched on a transparency and disappearing into Infinity through Mirror i facts. Day or so More if Ami Crank straight Orange juice. The natural acid is a Mouth or so before 1 met Paul sitting around one evening in a group on one of the tired patches of Lawn on fourth Avenue he got him self off everything. I did what 1 set out to he said simply. "1 Don t need it he looked at me a Little self consciously fumbling with the breast pocket of his jacket hesitating then Tak ing out a thin Book Aboul the size of a pack of cigarettes. The Book was titled Springs of Indian Wisdom Gandhi aurobindo hit opa Desa. Ramakrishna. Tagore. I opened it at random. A spirit filled with it read must needs direct its actions to the final goal Mahatma i returned the Book to Paul and he tucked it Back into his pocket. Like Redbear my hippie Friend who is soon to move himself and his woman into a Cabin in the Northern Interior of British Columbia Paul had begun planning his life. Among most of he hippies i met this was a rarity. Most of them simply were being. Maybe because they had t yet reached the stage dial Redbear and Paul had reached. I Don t really know. In conversation with hip. Plan fall trial Zurich. Switzerland Reu ters Justice authorities said monday the trial of three palestinians caused of machine gun Ning an Al Al israeli jetliner at Zurich Airport february Proba Bly will be held this fall. They said an israeli Security agent id to have killed a fourth at Tacker would also be tried in the fall. Ai Cut Mordechai Racha min. 22. Was i Reed on bail a after the shooting and was said to have joined the bodyguard of israeli Premier okla Cir. Pies As 1 have already pointed out. You Don t ask. You simply listen. You arc told what someone wishes to Tell you. And you Tell what you wish to Tell. Haul s plans his decision to Hitchhike to Banff High card o takes the mayoralty Windsor ont. Up City Council shuffled a pack of c Ards monday and Drew a mayor. The Council fell Back on the unorthodox method of appointing an interim mayor until scheduled municipal elections in Decem Ber after four aldermen Al Bert h. Weeks. William c. Riggs. Frank and Huntley Farrow each got two Voles for the Post. Or. Riggs Drew the Queen of hearts beating or. Far Row with a five or. with a seven and or. Weeks with a Jack. The position fell vacant after mayor John Wheelton resigned to accept an appointment As a provincial judge. And hopefully get a Job As i dishwasher admittedly weren t All that spectacular from an establishment society Point of View. Especially for a personable Young Man with a degree in civil engineering who could have inherited a thriving family business just by play Raj it straight. But to him any plan at All was important at this stage in his experience. Last he said with a half Grin All i planned was what foot 1 would put Forward to walk from Here to there. This week i be decided on a place to go and a thing to do. Next week then amending it quickly i Don t mean next week liter ally of course it might take weeks or maybe even months i la take another bigger step he broke off looking away and i watched him for a few moments. Future in doubt what happens next i said. And five years from now and when you meet a girl you want to marry and the children come along and have to be fed and clothed what Hap pens when Redbear s Chil Dren Are old enough to go to school and there in t a school or maybe even a Road for Miles around what happens when one of his children gets sick or he Falls and Breaks a Paul slowly Shook his i clout know. Rcd card. Myself he nodded vaguely taking in All of fourth Avenue none of us can see that far ahead. Right now. We re looking to ourselves trying to get things straight in our own minds. Trying to figure out How to live in a society that we can t accept As it he paused briefly. I had a Good Home. I had a career with a future i guess that s the Way you d describe it. All i had to do was what everybody else was doing. He Shook his head. I just could t do it. I m not going to Knock lion most people live. It s their Way and i feel that everyone must let other people be. I m looking for what i can be. To the Best of my understanding and ability. Not what i can do. But what i can be. Who i am. What i lie paused again. That s just about the Best Way i can say up and Down along fourth Avenue Young people were sprawled on the pretend lawns in front of the houses others lounged on the front porches or walked in twos and threes along the Side walks. Some stopped and were Given a cigarette or a Light another i noticed split a cellophane package of two chocolate iced cakes in two and handed one to someone who was passing by. Place to go on fourth Avenue there is no time no place to go. Nothing that has to be done except for a few who Are on their Way somewhere else. On the courthouse Steps downtown a dozen or so hippies sat in next to silence and in the Fountain Pool the hippie in the fathers get time off As Well Toronto up the first labor contract of local 1222. Canadian Union of Public employees with the students administrative Council of the University of Toronto permits eight weeks leave for expectant mothers. Expectant fathers gel two weeks off. All Are office workers. Said Sac president Gus Abol i i s discrimination against males not to give them some time the contract still to be ratified by the Council also stipulates that the parents Don t have to be married. Bowler hat Ami the scrape and his shirtless Friend sloshed through the water looking for coins. It had been five Days since i had first Nicl Redbear and he had shared his cigarettes with me because i told him that i did not have a smoke. Almost nothing had changed. In those five Days. 1 had sat with the hippies talked with them shared what i talc they had contributed no More than 1 had been offered. Out of whatever conclusions 1 came to personally one stands out above All others. As a group and for the most part individually they Are the unhappiest people 1 have Ever met. 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